Screenshots are no longer saving in Pictures\Screenshots

[Mistikoje]

Before when i used the win+shift+s shortcut, or on win 11 it changed to prtsc on my keyboard, i would get a notification from windows something like, screenshot taken or snip saved(i'm not sure) and it would save in my screenshots folder. Now after i reinstalled windows i no longer get a notification and it does not save in my screenshots folder. I saw tips about disabling them saving to onedrive or something and a regedit that would tell it to save to %USERPROFILE%\Pictures\Screenshots, but i just dont even get a notification nor does anything new appear in my screenshots folder and its annoying the hell out of me.

 

EDIT: Also when i screenshot something now using the snipping tool and paste it in a folder it's saved with some long string of numbers and letters and not the date it was taken

[Dr. Will0hlep]

3 hours ago, Mistikoje said:

Before when i used the win+shift+s shortcut, or on win 11 it changed to prtsc on my keyboard, i would get a notification from windows something like, screenshot taken or snip saved(i'm not sure) and it would save in my screenshots folder. Now after i reinstalled windows i no longer get a notification and it does not save in my screenshots folder. I saw tips about disabling them saving to onedrive or something and a regedit that would tell it to save to %USERPROFILE%\Pictures\Screenshots, but i just dont even get a notification nor does anything new appear in my screenshots folder and its annoying the hell out of me.

 

EDIT: Also when i screenshot something now using the snipping tool and paste it in a folder it's saved with some long string of numbers and letters and not the date it was taken

The behaviour your describing (where screenshots are saved to a specific folder with a neat name) is something I'd normally attribute to some third party software. What your experiancing now is (AFAIK) the default behaviour. I don't suppose there is any chance you still have the list of installed programs from your previous windows install do you?

[Thomas53]

In Windows 11 they're in your Clipboard.

Don't ask, it's just another one of those brilliant feature from the geniuses at Microsoft.

 

If you use their snipping tool it will place them, where someone with even a little common sense would put them, in the Screenshots folder.

Edited June 15 by Thomas53
Added more snarkiness to my reply.

[Mistikoje]

5 hours ago, will0hlep said:

The behaviour your describing (where screenshots are saved to a specific folder with a neat name) is something I'd normally attribute to some third party software. What your experiancing now is (AFAIK) the default behaviour. I don't suppose there is any chance you still have the list of installed programs from your previous windows install do you?

No, i don't have the list of apps from previous windows, but it was  most definetly the snipping tool from windows, just changed to PrtSc, and i would get a notification that i took a screenshot and it would be in the Screenshots folder named "Screenshot_(date and time)"

[Mistikoje]

4 hours ago, Thomas53 said:

In Windows 11 they're in your Clipboard.

Don't ask, it's just another one of those brilliant feature from the geniuses at Microsoft.

 

If you use their snipping tool it will place them, where someone with even a little common sense would put them, in the Screenshots folder.

I do use their snipping tool and im not getting anything in the screenshots folder, not even the notification that i took a screenshot that i should be getting

[Holmes108]

I'm not familiar with the win+shift combo, but If I'm not using the snip tool to grab a partial screen, I've always just used Win+PrintScreen to grab the entire screen and it goes to the screenshots folder. I'm currently on Windows 11 and this still works, though I'm sure I did the same in Windows 10.

 

Edit: And this doesn't give a notification per se, but the screen does dim for a split second, so you know it worked.

[Mistikoje]

9 minutes ago, Holmes108 said:

I'm not familiar with the win+shift combo, but If I'm not using the snip tool to grab a partial screen, I've always just used Win+PrintScreen to grab the entire screen and it goes to the screenshots folder. I'm currently on Windows 11 and this still works, though I'm sure I did the same in Windows 10.

 

Edit: And this doesn't give a notification per se, but the screen does dim for a split second, so you know it worked.

I've never used that shortcut but when you use win+shift+s a notification pops up at the bottom right of your screen which you can click on and the screenshot pops up and you can draw over it, crop, etc. and you can choose where to save it from there, but im not getting that

[Holmes108]

48 minutes ago, Mistikoje said:

I've never used that shortcut but when you use win+shift+s a notification pops up at the bottom right of your screen which you can click on and the screenshot pops up and you can draw over it, crop, etc. and you can choose where to save it from there, but im not getting that

 

Ah yep, I just tried your way, and it essentially launches me to a new snip (already capturing an area) and when I saved it, I saw the prompt "saved to your screenshots folder" and an option to "markup and share". It saved to the screenshots folder with the proper date name. So seems like it should still work.

 

I'm poking around, but haven't found a setting for it yet that might help you.